#co

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things. ↗

— Matt Groening

#conan #like #lot #moved #moved on

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career. ↗

— Matt Groening

#cartooning #combine #come #draw #people

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life. ↗

— Matt Groening

#before #called #comic #comic strip #did

I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time." ↗

— Matt Groening

#happy #how #i #if i could #judge

I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level. ↗

— Matt Groening

#books #college #completely #different #different level

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult. ↗

— Matt Groening

#books #covers #ever #extensively #fiction

'The Simpsons' is an especially collaborative show. ↗

— Matt Groening

#especially #show #simpsons #the simpsons

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time. ↗

— Matt Groening

#around #came #considered #controversial #else

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#consciousness #crisis #current #dominance #global

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#death #fear #freeing #important #non-denominational